Why are so many incredibly important news stories completely ignored by the mainstream media in the United States? Why do they seem to want to avoid many “controversial questions” as if they were the plague? Why does the media tend to label those that are willing to ask the hard questions and seek the truth as “conspiracy theorists”? Sadly, the truth is that the mainstream media in America does not do much real journalism anymore. At this point, approximately 90 percent of what you see on television is controlled by just 6 giant media corporations. That is why “the news” seems to be so similar no matter what channel you watch. Well, it turns out that a lot of Americans are getting tired of the safe, censored, pre-packaged news that they get from the corporate-controlled media. One recent poll found that 77 percent of all Americans do not trust television news at this point. This distrust has helped fuel the rise of the alternative media, which has absolutely exploded in recent years.

These days, if an important news story is deemed to be “too controversial” or threatens an important political or corporate interest, it is usually first broken either by the alternative media or by a foreign news source. If the story gets enough traction, sometimes the mainstream media will eventually start covering it as well.

But without a doubt the version of “the news” that is presented to us by the mainstream media is very tightly controlled. It doesn’t really matter what “the truth” actually is – if a particular story is going to hurt their corporate owners, their corporate advertisers or their favorite politicians, the “gatekeepers” will try to keep that story out of the news.

It is a very twisted system, and the American people need to realize that this is how it actually works. The media is not there to tell us the truth or to look out for our interests. Rather, the media is there to “define reality” for us and to tell us what to think.

Today, the average American watches 153 hours of television a month. That is a staggering amount of information that is being pumped into our brains, and they don’t call it “programming” for no reason.

Unfortunately, even though Americans are so “plugged in”, there are many important things that they never get to hear about. The following are 20 questions that the mainstream media won’t touch with a ten foot pole right now…

#1 Was foul play involved in the helicopter crash that killed 22 members of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 unit? Why were all the bodies cremated? Why was the helicopter’s black box never recovered? And during a memorial service for the fallen soldiers, why was an imam allowed to pray an Islamic prayer that “included language on U.S. soldiers burning in hell“?

#2 Why is the head of the NSA allowed to call a “top secret” meeting of the U.S. House of Representatives and use it to try to strong-arm members to vote against a bill that would place some significant restrictions on the agency?

Good questions. Of course we will probably never get answers to most of those posed.

knowledgeispower

Why does NASA and the Catholic Church have a super powered infrared telescope it uses called “Lucifer” and Vatican Astronomers who are paid to constantly scan the skies for Alien life and UFO’s? (Look into it) KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!

K

Welcome to my world. Yes I will add one. Hastings death was no accident. If the accident was not suspicious enough. To release the remains to the family, only after they had cremated him, without the families permission. This is the level of arrogance, and lawlessness they display. Al Capone would be proud of this Government.

Mick McNulty

Well said. The only difference today is instead of Al Capone going in to organized crime and bribing officials he’d go into Wall Street and own them.

Jane

Chris Dornan, Waco, Ruby Ridge…no accident. Will Edward Snowden and Julian Assange be the next “criminals” killed off for telling the truth?
Yet the guilty, the corrupt and the perverted go are free to go. These ARE the last days when good is evil and evil is good.

seth datta

Debate is only allowed in the West on those topics that they permit the debate on.

Leonardo Z. Arenas

Join “The Insider Club” if you want absolute truths.

Dave Webb

News reportage is dependent on advertising money. If the advertisers decide to stop advertising then the news media goes bankrupt. So please don’t tell them about a faulty product they are producing if you want their money.

Legal issues are also a factor. Right or wrong, the news media is likely to be sued for libel in a lot of cases.
What do you do with a 500 pound canary? The correct answer is? Do anything to keep it happy. Avoid it whenever possible. All of this takes people with guts and people with money backing them to go forward and actually report the news as it was intended originally in the constitution. But remember the government has unlimited power and resources to stop you.
Al Capone had a better set of morales than the Federal Bureaucracy. He made less money than them but only by a little bit.
What Fox News is doing is going with whomever has the money. Sensible for a business. Rather stupid for a news media because reputation can be everything. Your credibility is showing!

The average memory of news is 3 days. Beyond that everyone forgets about it. Exception is if you are constantly reminded of it for some reason.
Say you are put on a four day week because of budget cuts. You will remember that for a long time. It effects you every time you open your purse or wallet. Anyone that voted for a sequester can therefore be unelected at the next opportunity because people will remember who voted for and against something that directly effects their lifestyle.
Say you buy a car and it is a dud. You will remember that for 20 years and won’t buy that name brand again soon. I am not saying all Detroit cars are duds. But if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it might just be a duck. I think Detroit deliberately designed a number of products to fail to quickly and the name stuck. I am sure there are a number of good Detroit cars out there. But the number of duds gave them a bad reputation from consumers.
When push comes to shove, where is the big money?
Monsanto has been gaining a poor reputation for a very long time. But the money is there. So politicians are vulnerable to be on their side. Their PR sucks.

AS for the IRS whistleblowers, I think it might be only a matter of time before this becomes a Watergate type situation and it could be the end of an administration. Would I treat it with kid gloves? About that 500 pound canary . . . Yes I think I might be tempted to be on the trailing edge of reporting that news.
Backing the administration into a corner might not be a good idea unless you have a whole lot of company doing it.
The number one rule of news media is to keep the money rolling in. Anything that gets in the way of that is censored.

Louise in MO

The reason I watch Fox Cable News is they do NOT have a three day news cycle. They have continued reporting on Benghazi, the IRS, etc. since day one.

Amy

Why is there so little coverage of the attack on LGBTs in Russia, and on how the decision that the Olympics will be taking place in Russia in 2014 could be controversial?

Alphonsus_Jr

How about the silence on the ongoing holocaust of legalized surgical infanticide? The worst crimes against humanity are being committed on a daily basis via the legalized hiring of surgical hitmen to perpetrate surgical infanticide. The body count since 1973 is over 50,000,000 in the U.S. alone. Yet hardly a peep about it from the processed media.

Wrong choice = tiny corpse.

john

Good article, but..

Right now it feels like a propaganda piece against Obama, not that that would be wrong in any way, but it gives the reader a way to opt-out by dismissing you as a republican shill. This problem transcends party politics and a solution needs to include people from all over the politics spectrum.

cal

Its easily solved by just replacing some of the “Obamas” with “Cabinet”, “President”, “Government”, “White house” or similar synonyms.

What does an “All-American” know about today’s events?
The American Dream is just that, a dream. Being a Christian, a 20 year athlete, highly decorated military veteran, and college graduate has not enlightened this American, but has created a dark hole in his soul. And like my forefathers, Jesus Christ is the only reason I have any hope at all.
From the beginning of time people have believed in God or Gods. The old saying, “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire”, is no less true today than it has ever been. The “Bible” discusses many of the things that are occurring today.
It should be no surprise to anyone who has read the Bible, that there is a rivalry between good and evil, and that rivalry is more apparent today than it has ever been.
For us to dismiss God as Creator and settle for a “big bang” is demeaning to us as human beings. But that is just what evil wants us to do. Evil wants us to believe that we have the power of God, and we do not need Him. Exclude God, and all you have left is evil. This is what Governments all over the world are trying to do.
Now for the meat and potatoes…
The United States federal government was created to represent the People of this nation. Why? Why do the People need representation by a ‘governing body’? We don’t! But there are men in this world who need to be in control of something bigger than themselves in order to feel like their life has meaning. Their lives have meaning without being leaders, but they cannot see it. From the moment we believe we are smarter than others, wittier, stronger, and more in tuned than others, we create a self identity that believes we are better than others, and we know better than others. We give credit to our founding fathers for creating this nation. But our founding fathers were actually “lost souls” who believed they knew better than the rest of us, how we should live our lives and who should control them, because they were wealthier and connected to so called powerful men. It wasn’t our founding fathers who founded this country… it was poor people, running away from governmental control and dictator rule over their lives. The people who founded this nation were not diplomats and bankers… the diplomats and bankers want credit for it, but in reality they were sitting in their rocking chairs by a nice warm fire, eating their fancy dinners and being entertained by foolishness… while the real founders were starving, fighting indigenous men for a right to survive, and built this country with their bare hands, bloody and worn by the laborious efforts of everyday life in a new world. We sometimes forget this, and soon will completely.
The poor, but strong individuals that created this country did not want to be ruled or governed by an “elite” class who thought they were better than them because of fortune or heritage. The people that founded this nation wanted to be left alone… to freely and openly believe in God… to reap what they sow… to be given an honest chance at a peaceful, and fruitful life… to be able to defend their rights and beliefs and traditions.
Two hundred and fifty years later, it seems that government control and regulation have worked their way back on top, and this time they are not going to let go. Let me explain how the government knows so much about you and how to manipulate you:
— They have been studying us! Do you think M.I.T. is just a research facility for space travel and energy development? What do you think “market studies” actually reveal about us? Did you know that part of many “management training” courses actually teach how to manipulate employees?
— Money! Isn’t that what makes the world go around? We believe that without money, we cannot succeed, so we try and try, every day to make the money we need for our world to go around. Now, who do you think is making you believe that? Every day we are being inundated with commercials on television telling us that we need this and we need that… that we cannot be safe without this… and that our lives will be better if we have that. Radio, Television, billboards… at school, work and at home are a continuous reminder that we need money! Everything we need costs money… food, water, clothes, and now air! Do you think that it actually costs $50k dollars to make a vehicle? No! The reason why it costs $50k dollars is because over a period of 5 to 6 years you can make that much extra money to pay for it. Things can only cost what we can pay for them. You and your money are being manipulated. I think I read somewhere that eventually, it will cost you everything you can make in a day, just to get by that day… hmmmm, I think we are pretty close to that now.
— Authority! Yes, people need authority in their lives. Why? Because life is too complex to live haphazardly. We want to know that there are rules, because without rules we can be taken advantage of, or hurt one another accidentally. We need to know that you drive on one side of the street and so will everyone else, so we don’t plow head on into each other while driving around a curve. It seems, however, that knowing we need rules to structure our lives is something that can be taken advantage of. Like I said before, some of us actually believe we know better than others how life should be ruled. Some of us believe that our heritage in life, or our fortune makes us the ones to give guidance. And other people will believe that, because of the success that fortunate people have had, we believe that if it worked for them, it must work for us. But true authority lies in God, not in men… why? Because men can be manipulated by even more fortunate men.
— Greed! We are all greedy to a point or greed would have no affect on us. It’s difficult to explain greed completely because it is so dynamic and covers so many aspects of our lives in different ways. But greed allows for manipulation as well, and those that understand it have a powerful weapon in their grasp. When you know that someone really needs something, then you can get them to do many things to acquire it.
Money, Authority, and Greed… the essence of tyranny!
Why is the media not covering these things? Simple, see above.
Why are good people not standing up against tyranny? Answer with questions:
Why are we being treated with vaccines that contain cancers?
Why is fluoride, which is known to have harmful effects on humans, known to make humans submissive, being put in our toothpaste and the water we drink?
Why is television manipulating us and changing our perspectives on life?
Why would a government, who claims that weapons create freedom, try to take away it’s citizens guns?
Why does the government hold a patent on a cure for cancer and not allow research and testing to be done with it by the world as a whole?
Why is government borrowing more money than it can ever pay back? What kind of collateral is being given in order for us to borrow all that money?
What has happened to our gold reserves?
Why are their rumors of a police state?
Why are foreign military personnel training in the U.S.?
Why are sheriff’s departments training with the national guard?
Why is there about to be a total economic collapse in the United States, and no one is talking about it?
Why are there so many government collapses around the world?
What does our government do with all the money it receives from patents it holds?
Why does most of the world actually despise America, not run to it?
Why is most of the world fed up with their governments?
Why are people from around the world complaining that they can no longer feed their children, or provide proper shelter, clothing, and medical care for their children?
Why is health care so expensive that only the wealthy can afford it?
Why is the cost of healthcare draining families savings?
Why does the government collect a death tax on us?
Why has our government nearly tripled in size in the last 50 years?
Why does everyone feel entitled?
When man and woman was created, God did not tell them to apply for a social security card, nor did he tell them to pay taxes, nor were they instructed to acquire massive wealth and rule over all mankind. People do not need money to breathe, to drink from the fountains of the earth, or to eat of the plants and animals of the earth. People need authority, but only the authority that comes from their creator. Greed is the downfall of man, to have more than he needs means others must have less, and this cannot be right.
Why, again, are the true atrocities against men not covered by the media? Evil begets evil… light sheds darkness… and no greedy, power hungry entity wants the doors opened while they are doing bad things.
None of us are perfect, not even the Pope.
We all do bad things, and none of us want the world to know of them. But rest assured, that no evil deed goes unpunished.

Great Post, The Pope should not be included with the group called Humans though.

K

You are on the right road. Now let go of your doubts. Both major parties have totally sold out, so you are not wrong about the GOP. A public servant is supposed to serve the public. Yet the priorities of the ones we send to D.C. Are to gain power and wealth for themselves, and of course get reelected. Therefore they gained office through a lie. They tell more lies to stay in office. So is it any surprise, that we have a Government that lies about everything? If you were rich enough to afford a maid, and every day she came to work, she tried to burn your house down. How long would you keep employing her? No difference with a public servant. They go to work in D.C.,and every day they work to burn down the house we call the U.S. And yet we keep employing them. As long as the people of this Country, spend more time deciding what they want for dinner. Then they spend deciding who should run the Country. This is what we will have. If people want a change, stop voting for the same two groups.

Christopher Calumny

How many bears could Bear Grylls grill if Bear Grylls could grill bears?

http://unsealing-the-seven-seals.blogspot.com/ Michael_Cecil

Why is the academic, the mainstream, and even the ‘alternative’ media unwilling to publicize research demonstrating that Jesus was the author of the Thanksgiving Hymns of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which also clearly demonstrate that Jesus taught the Doctrine of “resurrection” as a Doctrine of ‘Rebirth’? (This story is at least 20 years old.)

The answer should be obvious.

Why is even the ‘alternative’ media unwilling to publicize anything at all about the theological-doctrinal origins of the political-military conflicts throughout the Middle East?

That answer, which is similar to the first answer, should be obvious as well.

Michael

ddearborn

Hmmm

Why do we invade and destroy entire countries in the name of human rights and democracy and refuse to punish israel for terrorizing, war crimes and genocide for decades against the Palestinian people.

Why were all of the literally hundreds of direct links between 9-11 and israel swept under the rug.

Why do we allow John McCain a man who needed a presidential pardon to overcome charges of treason run for president

The list is endless

Ben in Arizona

First of all your talking out of ignorance, there’s is no such a people as palestinians, all they are, are refugees out of the arab rebublics that didn’t want them for being a thorn on their side. So they came to Israel looking for work, and Israel took them in and so now Arafat had this bright idea of hey lets say we’re palestinians and have the Arab leagues back us up and now we’ll be a thorn on the Jews. And if you don’t believe me just look for archeologist digs and questions about such a people and they’ll tell you there is no such a people. Just one big lie after lies kept going by the Moslums and Arabs. Dont’ believe what see on the mainstream media its all propaganda.

ddearborn

Hmmm
I beg to differ ben. Your are confused. Palestine and the Palestinian people are not “refugees” Thousands of Palestinians

clarita

c’mon guys ! main stream =lame stream = ONE STREAM.

FX ofTruth

Americans love to waste time. TV is such a brain-numbing, bland, perverted, useless waste of time. They waste time they could spend learning something that enlightened them about real life.
But, no….they need to keep track of big-titted women, who are whores and dingbats. They need to see scripted Reality TV. They need to know who won the latest ball game…game after game after game after game…for years…., They need to see repeated news in 15 second clips…it makes them feel informed.
Well, if they are so informed, why is everyone so stupid about critical situations? Oh thats right, they weren’t told what to think about…no opinion on anything….just sport scores….

Fred Coyote

If you take this list seriously, you should seek professional help.

CitizenBrain

Stop projecting your own short comings on to others, comrade.

UpGradde

If u don’t u should seek it, and u probably would, gobbling down some psychotropics from big pharma

RKae

So, in other words, you can answer all the questions.
…Go ahead.
…We’re waiting.

Leonardo Z. Arenas

Better guys, join the “Outsider Club ” for unbiased and absolute truths of political issues.

usmcmailman

The “Lame Stream Media” is owned by the far-left, and
obviously hates this Country but loves Communism!

s gre

Some other questions the MSM won’t ask; 1) Why did the White House web site post a forged birth certificate? 2) Why are all of his school documents and passport/travel documents prior to the 2008 election sealed? 3) How can he claim on his law application that he never went by an alias when he had the adopted name “Soetero” while living and attending muslim school in Indonesia which only children who were Indonesian citizens could do? 4) How can he have Indonesian citizenship through his adoptive Indonesian father Lolo Soetero, British citizenship through his Kenyan birth father Barack Hussein Obama Sr, and NO U.S. citizenship since his American citizen mother, married to a British foreign national, was according to immigration law at the time TOO YOUNG to confer her citizenship status to him, yet still claim to be constitutionally eligible to be POTUS? 5) How can he claim he killed Bin Laden when former Prime Minister of India Benazir Bhutto in a 2007 interview with renowned British journalist David Frost stated Bin Laden had been dead since 2001? 6) Why were there no reports or evidence of dialysis equipment found in the apartment where Bin Laden, known to have end-stage renal disease since 2001, was supposedly killed? PEOPLE HIDING IN CAVES, MOUNTAIN HUTS AND THIRD-WORLD BACK ALLEY HIDE-OUTS DO NOT LIVE 10 YEARS WITH END STAGE RENAL DISEASE! 7) While videos and pictures of Sadam’s hanging and twisted head in the noose, and pictures of Qaddafi’s bloodied mangled body were released, why no pictures, OR ANY EVIDENCE, of bin Laden’s body? 8) Why was Bin Laden’s body hurriedly buried at sea against muslim tradition and practice? And finally, the BIGGEST question….9) WHY IS THERE NOT ONE HOSPITAL…NOT ONE…ANYWHERE IN THE 50 STATES THAT WILL ACKNOWLEDGE OR CONFIRM HIS BIRTH THERE OR EVEN HIS MOTHER AS A MATERNITY PATIENT THERE??? NOT EVEN AN 8X10in B&W PICTURE HANGING ON ANY HOSPITAL LOBBY WALL…ANYWHERE!!!! Have a nice day.

Who

Why are there only three legal treatments for cancer in America? Why are doctors being thrown in jail for using alternative treatments and being successful with them?
Why did Eddie Van Halen say the treatment that cured his cancer is illegal in America?

bugler1

Why the clear evidence of jewish involvement in 911 is not discussed by the media?

Why the monetary system scam (central banks scam + fractional system) is not discussed by the MSM?

Why the MSM is not talking about the high number of jews in high-power post in the government?

Why the MSM is not discussing the huge amount of facts contradicting many points of the so-called holocaust?

Leonardo Z. Arenas

Dear bugler1,
No need for media explanation. You got already your ‘clear evidence on your #1 query. Your opinion is as good as mine. You are entitled to your own opinion.

Danny Adams

#18: It’s not just News Corp. If you look at the Open Secrets website’s pages for the major media corporations, you’ll see that all of them split their money almost 50/50 between Democrat and Republican. That’s because they’re all more interested in the bottom line than one political belief of the other, and keeping the parties at each other’s throats is only ever good for the bottom line.

RKae

Why is the military repeatedly running drills of helicopter raids over major cities?

Why is the idea that Obama’s birth certificate a “debunked conspiracy” when no one can produce a document expert who can explain why it’s in layers?

Why is no one talking about the approach of a 17-trillion-dollar debt?

s gre

Why did so many dumb a$$ crackers vote for this dumb a$$ n!99er…twice!!

michelle

some of your links are not working – the one about “lifestyles, attitudes, and behaviors” is one

Jonathan

It helps to be in control of your own opposition. Is it that fox news is the controlled opposition?

Karla Webb

FEMA death camps, coffins, and guilotines sorry spelling stinks

Wayne Chipman

I was a die hard Republican at the age of 7, my Dad was a die hard Democrat. He woke up about 15 years ago and became a Republican. I have woken and He should soon. There is no difference between Dems and Reps the are simply snakes of a different color and all should be hung for Treason. Lobby money is bribery.

Bridgett

Yes, Why are the owners of the Federal Reserve not publicized?

The Fed is mentioned every five seconds on MSNBC, but no photographs of the true owners of the privately owned bank, just the puppet Bernanke, who is a nobody. So, why don’t they show us these all powerful people who print our currency out of thin air.

Why are they not as popular as Madonna, or the Kardashians?

I mean these people print the money?

Since all money is borrowed from the Fed with interest, if they do pay taxes, do they just pay themselves, since they are the receivers of our labor?

We see the Royal Babies, why not the Federal Reserve families babies, they are the elite silent ruling class of our nation, so why don’t we put them in a palace and worship them as the British worship their elite rulers?

Cliff Gieseke

Why is the mainstream media so silent about the presence of UFOs and ET abductions? In the early 1950s I saw lots of news stories about UFOs. Today I never see reports of UFOs in mainstream media. I am hoping there will be full disclosure before I die. (I’m 74 and have multiple myeloma cancer now in remission after a stem cell transplant three years ago.)

ITMAKESADIFFERENCE

What about Benghazi and who really knew and the real motiveses for non-intervention?

Robert D’Arensbourg

Don’t CREMATE me, Bro!

gibby62

What about Benghazi???

Michael Nappi

Where was Obama during the 9/11/12 attacks in Benghazi?
Was Obama aware the attacks were taking place?
Where did the order for the response teams to stand down and not respond to the request for assistance by the Americans under attack in Benghazi?
What gives Obama the right to our emails and phone records while he has his college records and transcripts hidden from us?